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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the horrifying murder of Walter Scott by South Carolina police officer Michael Slager, the presidential campaign of Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), and the sesquicentennial of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

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A police officer in South Carolina murdered Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, during a routine traffic stop.